Hootananny host SMHAFF event at Halloween

Hootananny will hold a live music event as part of Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2012 on Wednesday October 31st 2012.

The aim of the festival is to challenge preconceptions about mental health, with a particular focus on this year being on childhood and memory, priding itself on being one of Scotland’s most diverse cultural events.

It will be the first time the venue has hosted an event for the festival. Hootananny will be opening up two floors to allow 8 bands of genres ranging from prog-rock to metal, certainly should be a little bit of what you fancy. The line up currently includes Zombie Militia, Cleavers, Toby Michaels Rolling Damned, Swamp Radio, Skeleton Verse, Last Summer Effect and Searching For Donkeys.

A lifelong passion for music matched with a geeky fascination for social media and websites resulted in the creation of Inverness Gigs back in 2010. The aim of the site is to help promote, support and generally raise awareness of the local music scene.In fairness fifteen years of being a psychiatric nurse never prepared me for the experiences that we have had over the last few years and the evolution of Inverness Gigs has certainly been a steep learning curve.I currently write (less and less), edit and co-ordinate most of the Inverness Gigs activities.Occasionally seen on Twitter, and LinkedIn, if you want get in touch you can contact me direct at chris@igi.gs